105312 Quotes by American authors

American voices swing between defiance and tenderness, mixing porch talk with courtroom thunder, hymnals with barroom jokes. The sayings lean toward motion, road-tested, restless, certain that the next turn matters, and they test ideas like tools, not ornaments. Humor undercuts sermon, dissent stands beside loyalty, and hope keeps arguing with experience. From prairie plain speech to borough quickfire, the language favors verbs over lace, a handshake over ceremony. Edge meets empathy, contradictions are carried honestly, and words still try to shove the world forward.

See the complete list of authors from USA

"Men must know their limitations"

Clint Eastwood, Actor

Clint Eastwood

"They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

Jock Sturges

"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real"

Tupac Shakur, Musician

Tupac Shakur

"Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle"

Ken Blanchard, Author

Ken Blanchard

"Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

Marian Wright Edelman

"You really can change the world if you care enough"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

Marian Wright Edelman

"Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary"

Sarah Ban Breathnach, Author

Sarah Ban Breathnach

"If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete"

Jack Welch, Businessman

Jack Welch

"He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food"

Raymond Chandler, Writer

Raymond Chandler

"I have one speed, I have one gear: go!"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

Charlie Sheen

"If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane, If we weren't all crazy we would go insane"

Jimmy Buffett, Musician

Jimmy Buffett

"Character matters; leadership descends from character"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

Rush Limbaugh

"The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

Kathleen Turner

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out"

Bill Hicks, Comedian

Bill Hicks

"A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?"

Robert Redford, Actor

Robert Redford

"There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes"

Herbert Simon, Scientist

Herbert Simon

"Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man"

J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist

J. Robert Oppenheimer

"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be"

Peter De Vries, Novelist

"A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty"

William C. Bryant, Poet

"Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs"

Thomas Wolfe, Novelist

"The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

Robert Rauschenberg

"Technology is not neutral"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

Godfrey Reggio

"No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"If you're tired of starting over, stop giving up"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

Shia LaBeouf

"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth"

Louis Kahn, Architect

"Good is not good when better is expected"

Vin Scully, Celebrity

Vin Scully

"As of now, I am in control here in the White House"

Alexander Haig, Public Servant

"Statistics are no substitute for judgment"

Henry Clay, Statesman

Henry Clay

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best"

Duke Ellington, Musician

Duke Ellington

"The most heroic word in all languages is revolution"

Eugene V. Debs, Politician

"People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness"

John Wanamaker, Businessman

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it"

Donald Knuth, Scientist

Donald Knuth

"In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along"

Antonin Scalia, Judge

"McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"Society is unity in diversity"

George H. Mead, Philosopher

"I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars"

Jacqueline Cochran, Aviator

Jacqueline Cochran

"It's a blast to watch. It's a lot more interesting live than it is on record. I mean, it really is a theatrical event. It's a sporting event! Cause you never know what's gonna happen"

John Zorn, Composer

John Zorn

"My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam"

Madeleine Albright, Statesman

"If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm"

Bruce Barton, Author

Bruce Barton

Page 32 of 2633